UNN WINS WORLD BANK AFRICA CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

The Governing Council, Senate, staff and students of the University of Nigeria is hereby informed that the University of Nigeria has won the World Bank-funded Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), after a very competitive and months-long rigorous World bank experts evaluation process, involving about 134 proposals from Nigeria and many other proposals from the west and central African sub-region. UNN won the Africa Centre of Excellence Impact Project along with ten other Nigerian universities in various disciplines, such as health, pharmacy and medicine.

The Vice-chancellor, Prof. Benjamin C. Ozumba and the leader of the ACE-SPED proposal team, Prof. Emenike C. Ejiogu of the Department of Electrical Engineering, received the good news from the Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar A. Rasheed, on November 13th, 2018, at a ceremony in Abuja. This has since been followed by a nine day Launching and Boot Camp Training held at Djibouti from February 18-27, 2019, organized by the World Bank and the Association of African Universities. The University administration is rapidly taking steps for the centre to smoothly resume full operations.

Prof. Emenike Ejiogu

Director

ACE SPED

Invitation to 3rd WPHRG Biennial Water Lecture

The Water and Public Health Research Group (WPHRG) invites you to the 3 rd WPHRG Biennial Water Lecture to be delivered by Dr Emmanuel Adukwu of the University of the West of England (UWE-Bristol), on the topic: “Building Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations for Implementation of Water and Health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria.”

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POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN SOCIAL POLICY: PGD; MSP & M.Sc

The Department of Public Administration and Local Government also offers the following degrees and postgraduate diploma on Part-time and full-time bases:

Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Social Policy

The Postgraduate Diploma in Social Policy is based on the philosophy of human capacity building as a factor to support development planning and management.

Admission Requirements           

1. Five ‘O’ level credit passes including English Language and any four subjects.
2. A student with at least 3^rd class degree in any area of study.

• HND holders with a minimum of Upper Credit from recognized institution may also be considered.

1. HND holders with lower credit and/or BSc holder with pass degree with 5 years and above post-graduation experience

Master of Social Policy (MSP)

The MSP programme offers a professional training in Social Policy at the Master degree level. As a professional programme, this option combines theoretical and practical aspects of Social Policy as an academic discipline and social, political, and administrative processes.

Admission Requirements

1. Five ‘O’ level credit passes including English Language and any four subjects.
2. Bachelor of Science Degree in related field from a recognized University with a minimum of Third Class or a postgraduate diploma in a related field from a recognized university.

• Applicants that possess Higher National Diploma (HND) with a minimum of Upper Credit and relevant work experience.

1. Any other qualification that is acceptable to the Board of Postgraduate School and Senate of the University will also be considered as part of the admission requirements.

Master of Science (M.Sc) in Social Policy

The M.Sc. in Social Policy is based on the philosophy of human capacity building as a factor to support development planning and management. The programme is anchored on the philosophy of empowering human resource as a factor of change in the society.

Admission Requirements

The criteria for admission into M.Sc. Social Policy programme will be as follows:

1. Five (5) O-level credits passes including English;
2. Candidates with at least 2^nd Class honours Lower Division in Social or Management Science;

• Candidates with a PGD in Social Policy with a CGPA of 3.5 on a 5 point scale or its equivalent.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Application Forms can be obtained ONLINE on payment of a non-refundable fee ofN25,000.00 (Twenty five thousand naira only) made payable to “The University of Nigeria Postgraduate Application Fees Account, at any bank within the country using the Remita platform.

Applicants should log onto www.unn.edu.ng and follow the procedures stated below:

• Click on UNN Portal or through this link unnportal.unn.edu.ng.
• Click on PG Application form to generate invoice for payment.
• Use your phone number to generate the invoice. You are advised to use a functional number to enable us reach you for the admission screening test.

• Proceed to any Bank with Remita platform for payment.
• Return to the UNN Portal with your payment confirmation pin from the Bank and follow the procedure for completing the form.

REFEREE REPORTS

When completing the application form, the candidates shall supply the email addresses of their referees through which a link will be sent to the Referees with request to complete the Report Form in respect of the candidate and submit online. The candidate shall download the three (3) completed Referee Report Forms and enclose them in an envelop for submission to the Secretary, School of Postgraduate Studies along with their online application forms. Please note that applications would not be processed unless the referee reports are available.

TRANSCRIPTS

Candidate should download transcript request forms (D2) also provided online, and submit to their former Universities/Institutions to forward their academic transcript(s) to “The Secretary, School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka” to reach  him/her not later than 30thJune, 2019. Candidates whose transcripts are not received on or before the deadline by the School shall not have their application forms processed.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION FORMS

Most information required would be completed online. However, a copy of the online completed application form should be downloaded and printed. The printed application form with the relevant documents as listed below should be posted or delivered to the Secretary, School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for Nsukka based faculties. Candidates for Enugu Campus based faculties are to submit their application forms by post or deliver them to the Deputy Registrar, School of Postgraduate Unit, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. For ease of reference, Enugu Campus based faculties and Institutes/Centre are: Business Administration; Environmental Studies; Health Sciences & Technology; Law; Basic Medical Sciences; Medical Sciences; Institute for Development Studies (IDS); Institute of Maritime Studies; Institute of Maternal and Child Health; Institute of Public Health and Centre for Environmental Management & Control (CEMAC). Candidates are advised to ensure that the following documents are enclosed in the file:

• Copies of their qualifying certificates/statements of result and NYSC discharge certificate (Exemption or Exclusion Certificate). Note that To Whom It May Concern shall not be accepted in lieu.
• Two copies of the Application summary form (D3) available online should be downloaded & printed:
• (i) One copy of the printed summary form (D3) should be glued very neatly (NOT STAPLED) on a 10” X 15” brown envelope;
• (ii) The second copy of the printed summary form (D3) should be glued very neatly (NOT STAPLED) on a 9” X 13” white file jacket;

• All accompanying documents should be placed in the file jacket specified in (b.ii) and the File Jacket should be placed in the brown envelope as specified in (b.i) above.

All documents must fit into the 10” X 15” envelope and delivered or addressed and sent by courier to “The Secretary, School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nigeria,Nsukka” and to the Deputy Registrar, School of Postgraduate Studies Unit, Enugu Campus for Enugu Campus-based academic units.

CLOSING DATE

Application starts from 1st March, 2019 and closes on 31st March, 2019.

**IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS**

1. All applicants will undergo computer based Postgraduate admission screening test.
2. Check out for information on screening processes via the UNN Website unn.edu.ng from, Monday 1stJuly, 2019, for your further necessary action.
3. Date for the Screening Test: 19th July, 2019.
4. NOTE: For Ph.D degree programme, a candidate must have published at least an article from his/her Ph.D Thesis or obtained an acceptance letter from a journal certified by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as a condition for graduation.

T. Ugwueze,

Deputy Registrar/Secretary, School of Postgraduate Studies

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

OPENING OF PORTAL FOR CHANGE OF DEGREE FOR WITHDRAWN STUDENTS

This is inform the University Community in general, and affected students in particular, that the portal will be opened for students who were asked to withdraw from their current departments on account of poor academic performance (failing of core courses) with effect from Thursday, February 28, 2019. This is to enable them generate invoice, pay and fill the online form for change of degree from their current departments to other possible departments in 2018/2019 academic session.

For avoidance of doubt, the affected students are from the following Departments:

• Medicine and Surgery
• Dentistry
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Nursing Sciences
• Law

Please note that only students that applied to the Registrar for re-opening of portal, after they were withdrawn from their current departments, are allowed to have access to the portal.

The portal opened for this category of students will close on March 14, 2019 to enable the relevant departments to submit to the Registrar, list of recommended candidates on or before March 29, 2019.

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Registrar

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School Of General Studies (SGS) Conference 2019

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ICT UNIT OF THE UNIVERSITY

Presents to you a mobile application called UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA MOBILE APPLICATION (UNNAPP)

This application is of immense benefits to students and staff of the university as well as to the university herself.

To the students:

The mobile app makes it possible for students to access the university portal and website as a downloadable mobile app. With this application, the students can, conveniently, carry out many portal and website activities like: course registration, viewing of course grades/CGPA, payments of school fees and lots more through their smart phones and other mobile devices.

Students can as well engage in numerous activities in the university website like the UNN news, UNN Instagram, UNN twitter, UNN facebook, UNN instagram,  itranscript, how to do, elearning, community zone, repository, open educational resources, inaugural lectures, pg school activities and so many more.

To the Staff

The mobile application will enable members of the university staff to gain easy access to

UNN news, UNN library and resources, google scholar, research gate, university email, UNN YouTube Channel, all the features listed above and lots more, through their phones and other mobile devices.

To the University

The mobile app will bring the needed traffic for the university website that will move the university high in terms of university ranking. The app will help to make the staff and students of the university visible which will lead to the overall visibility of the university. 

To Obtain the App

Search for UNNMAPP or University of Nigeria Mobile Application, at your android play store.

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Notice of Meeting Of Congregation  

Following the declaration of vacancy for the position of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Nigeria as stipulated in the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Decree 1993 (No.11) Section 3, Sub-Section 2(a), an emergency meeting of the congregation has been scheduled as follows:

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Following the suspension of the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union, full academic activities resumes today, Monday, February 11, 2019.

All academic staff and non-teaching staff are directed to ensure that full academic activities take off smoothly in order to cover lost ground.

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The Approved Revised Time-Table of Events for 2018/2019 Academic
Session  

(Sgd.)
Dr. Chris C. Igbokwe
Registrar

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